Chroma Projects


Inked well: Chroma printmakers impress Published on Dec 5th, 2011 0 comments During November and December, several galleries in Central Virginia are devoting their walls to the collaborative project, “Focus on the Print." While Second Street Gallery and Les Yeux du Monde...
Talk show host: Casey wants you to play games Published on Nov 14th, 2011 0 comments Everyone understands what a “date movie” entails, but what about a “date art exhibit”? Rosamond Casey has created just that with “Catch the Baby,” an installation at Chroma Projects that is ideally...
Artists are invited to participate in Harvest Madonnari Festival Published on Oct 1st, 2011 0 comments In conjunction with Chroma Projects' exhibit, "Farm Use," artists are invited to create works of art on the Downtown Mall during the "Harvest Madonnari Festival." Inspired by the 16th century i...
Spin doctors: Artists thread the line Published on Aug 8th, 2011 0 comments In a recent Huffington Post article, biologist Marlene Zuk writes most people are more fearful of insects than of death. I don’t mind bugs; it’s grubs and maggots that give me the heebie-jeebies. If...
Chroma Projects: One/Off Richmond Printmakers, Tim Michel, Jim Henry, and Gary Michael Keyes Published on Jul 31st, 2011 0 comments Chroma Projects presents four new exhibitions: the Front Gallery features work by 13 artists involved with the One/Off Richmond Printmaking group; the Passage Gallery shows local fave Tim Michel's...
Chroma Projects: Rosamond Casey and Lindsay Heider Diamond Published on Jul 31st, 2011 0 comments Chroma Projects presents two new exhibitions. In the Front Gallery and Black Box, Rosamond Casey offers "Catch the Baby," featuring images, figures, and playing pieces from a game that enables two...
Chroma Projects: "Farm Use" Published on Jul 31st, 2011 0 comments Chroma Projects, in collaboration with the Piedmont Environmental Council, presents "Farm Use," a group exhibition of agrarian artwork, featuring paintings by Nancy Bass and Robin Braun, sculpture by...
Chroma Projects: Robert Bricker, Michael Fitts, and Pat Goslee Published on Jul 31st, 2011 0 comments Chroma Projects presents new exhibitions by two local faves: "Long-Winded Short Stories: The Art of Robert Bricker" fills the main gallery, and painter Michael Fitts' "Recent Works" hangs in the...
Chroma Projects: Elsabe Dixon, Janet Grahame Nault, and Pat Goslee Published on Jul 31st, 2011 0 comments Chroma Projects presents the exhibition "Fecundity" in its main gallery, featuring an living installation involving silk worms by Elsabe Dixon, plus paintings and mixed-media work by Janet Grahame...
Terra incognita: Parallel shows abstract the elements Published on Jul 4th, 2011 0 comments Serendipity— so refreshing but so often fleeting. Case in point: until July 10, the ideal way to precede a visit to photographer Paige Critcher and painter Pamela Wallace’s Chroma Projects exhibit, “...
Chroma Projects: Paige Critcher, Pamela Wallace, Kristin Reiber Harris, and Jason Robinson Published on Jun 25th, 2011 0 comments Chroma Projects presents three shows: in the Front Gallery, "As Above, So Below" features photographs by Paige Critcher and paintings by Pam Wallace; in the Passage Gallery, "Spring Rains" showcases...
Social network: Vitali sees the big picture Published on Jun 20th, 2011 0 comments For most photographers, it’s thrilling to have their images projected onto the giant screen at the Paramount Theater. Not so for Massimo Vitali, one of the three photo artists interviewed at the...
Chroma Projects: Photography by Massimo Vitali, Bill Mauzy, and Allysa Salomon Published on May 28th, 2011 0 comments Chroma Projects, in association with Look3: Festival of the Photograph, presents "Natural Habitats," an exhibition of work by INsight artist Massimo Vitali, in the Front Gallery. Also on view: Bill...
Natural detachment: Ress cuts through what's precious Published on May 9th, 2011 0 comments Richmond’s 1708 Gallery recently showed a series of riveting photographs by Kimberly Witham, who collects road kill to take back to her studio, where she shoots close-ups of the deceased animals in...
Chroma Projects: Beverly Ress, Paula Christman, and Lydia Moyer Published on Apr 30th, 2011 0 comments Chroma Projects features three shows: in the Front Gallery, Beverly Ress presents "Making this World: Constructed Drawings; in the Passage Gallery, Paula Christman shows "Earth Paintings"; and in the...
Starry eyed: Bennett and co. harness the heavens Published on Apr 18th, 2011 0 comments Between giant sun flares and the recent “super moon,” not to mention new theorizing that life on earth sprang from space fungus, the cosmos has been making news lately. (And let’s not forget the...
ARThouse: Ar(t)chitectural Open House Published on Apr 9th, 2011 0 comments Co-curated by Chroma Projects and Les Yeux du Monde, ARThouse: Ar(t)chitectural Open House is a week-long "collusion of art, architecture, and antiques," featuring design by Kevin Davis, antiques by...
Reading into things: Chroma artists have a way with words Published on Mar 21st, 2011 0 comments “Show, don’t tell.” Every author knows this dictate by heart (whether choosing to comply or not). The visual artists showing work in Chroma Projects’ current exhibition, “Anthology: One Thousand...